Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was difficult to believe that she was only a few years younger than his mother ; both mentally and physically she belonged to a different generation . |
| 2 | Eventually she wrote to a social worker and , under the new Children 's Act , is seeking to divorce her parents . |
| 3 | Gratefully she responded to the familiar London accent . |
| 4 | Wendy Vaughan began cooking professionally six years ago at the Old Rectory in Llansanfraid , North Wales — the family home she converted to a small hotel with her husband Michael when he sold his motor parts company . |
| 5 | She began to walk forward rapidly , but a couple of minutes later she came to an abrupt stop . |
| 6 | Later she moved to a proper — and vast — gallery on West Broadway . |
| 7 | Rigidly she listened to the even sound of his breathing , so aware of him pressed against her that her very skin prickled . |
| 8 | And then she came to a small rise in the land and there was a man , his head under his arm . |
| 9 | Then she changed to the other leg . |
| 10 | Then she turned to the much-travelled carrier bag on the bed beside her . |
| 11 | Then she turned to the red bitch and thrashed her for her negligence , calling her lazy , useless , good-for-nothing . |
| 12 | Her cruel circumstances conspired to put her into a remand home at 14 — and from there she went to an adolescent unit , until the age of 17 . |